ISRO signed 4 cooperative documents to collaborate in space exploration in last 5 years

New Delhi: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has said, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed four cooperative documents specifically to collaborate in space exploration in the last five years. He said, the agreement with the USA is for accommodating USA instruments in India’s Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3.

The Minister said, the agreement with Japan is to conduct feasibility study for a joint lunar polar exploration mission, while with UK for conducting feasibility study for collaboration in future space science missions. Dr. Singh said this in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha



yesterday.

Dr Singh further said that the Department of Space provides training and capacity building in space science-related technology including satellite services to neighboring small countries and other space-aspiring countries of the world.

He said, India and Bhutan collaborated on the development of INDIA-BHUTAN SAT Satellite carrying into payloads NanoMX, an optical imaging payload developed by ISRO and APRS-Digipeater, jointly developed by DITT, Bhutan and ISRO. The satellite has been successfully placed in orbit 26 November of this year.